Disaster Recovery from DPS Software

Disaster Recovery from DPS Software

Posted: 01 December 2009 | Browse more news

With homes and businesses being destroyed by disasters more frequently, find out how to protect your business with Disaster Recovery from DPS Software.

Over the past 2 weeks we have seen extreme weather conditions destroy homes and businesses in the North West. November's flooding has been the fourth large-scale flooding emergency in 11 years. A foot of rain fell in 24 hours across Cumbria and more than 1,300 homes have been flooded in the kind of disaster that happens once every 1,000 years. Many of the businesses affected in this disaster will never recover, reinforcing the need for a comprehensive disaster recovery plan.

'Disaster' covers a large number of situations including fire, flooding, earthquake and other natural or created events. Other situations which could put businesses at risk include backup failure, server failure, theft, virus attack and sabotage.

Protection of IT systems, which are often the backbone of many businesses, is essential to ensuring business continuity and profit protection. One form of protection is to completely host IT systems, meaning that a remote secure server-based network is used, away from a business office.

Hosting IT systems offsite is becoming increasingly popular as a cost-effective way of pulling all costs into a single monthly payment. Server and server software upgrades become a thing of the past and the 3 to 5 year bulk expenditure on changing hardware is no longer necessary.

One such business based in the North West, Malcolm Dodds Solicitors, took out a hosting policy with DPS Software in order to protect their IT infrastructure in the face of such disasters.

Find out more about how hosting has worked for the firm.

Hosting ensures that IT infrastructure and maintenance is carried out off site, so that flooding and other such disasters do not affect IT systems and cause minimal disruption to working practices.

Date: 01 December 2009
Listed in: Technology, North West

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